Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Today in the evening me and my sister was having a game of badminton. As we were playing ,the cork fall out of our compound. I ran out to take it. There I saw a goat grazing along the street enjoying the tender grass. I watched it very carefully and found that the goat was walking towards our neighborhood for the tender leaves of the jackfruit tree which was cut down just a day before. I have heard my mom say that goats are especially very fond of jackfruit leaves .So did this goat showed its fondness to the jackfruit leaves. After enjoying this delicious meal it took a few steps towards me. I did utilize this opportunity well enough. I took a quick glance at it. It was white in color. Very fare it was .just at this second I heard a loud scream. Oh no! It was my sister. She wanted me to return and play with her. I had forgotten all about our game. By this loud scream the goat almost got numb with fear and ran down the street for its life.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Some days ago I had seen a humming bird nest on a plant in my backyard.

It had made its nest in a calm dry edge where the rain could not extend its wet hands. The bird

had made it such a way that there was a roof like thing above. I never did venture to look inside

the nest whether there were eggs or not. But soon I had an opportunity to see it though sadly.

Today morning I went to watch the nest but I was not able to see it hang on the plant. But I saw it on the ground .Oh! It had fallen down. How painful.

I gently took the nest and looked inside. There were two little brown eggs. Thank God!

they were not broken. My next step was to hang it safely again so that the bird can hatch

its lovely eggs. I bought a rope, very strong one and tied the nest to another strong branch. I was afraid whether the mother bird would return to its nest. But to my surprise the bird came and got into its nest happily and thankfully looked at me. I became proud of myself for helping the bird out form the misery and the bird gave me a thankful smile as a reward.

I think I had made the nest more comfortable for the bird because as it was with arope that I had tied the nest swayed to the breeze like a cradle.

Now I am looking forward the eggs to hatch into beautiful humming birds!

Saturday, December 6, 2008

ma He was a coconut tree climber. In our region coconuts are very important. Almost all homes hadcoconut trees and in all our food preparations coconut does a major part.Eating a tender coconut was very delicious and different from eating ordinary coconut. The coconut trees are always very

tall so we can’t pluck the coconuts just with our hands. Usually there are many people who takeclimbing these trees as their work. Often such people ask high wages too. Really this is a very

dangerous as well as a risky work. One such man was this one.

He climbed up the tree and put them on to the ground. “Thud” the coconut fall down with a loudsound. Any way coconuts won’t break because it has a thick spongy coating outside

which

protects it. After a while the man came down. Then I and my

young sister piled the coconuts up

and our mother packed them into the sacks for storing. All this work was very interesting and